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X11 Forwarding When Issuing: sudo su

2010-01-082010-01-08T13:36:25ZY-m-d">January 8, 20102010-01-08T13:36:25ZF j, Y

If you have Xming installed and are forwarding X11 with putty you may notice that all is well until you need to run a gui application as the root user (after issuing sudo su). If you just need to run the gui application and don’t require the entire root environment then issuing a sudo app [...]

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IBM ThinkPad T43 Hissing Noise In Linux

2008-06-262008-06-27T01:56:54ZY-m-d">June 26, 20082008-06-27T01:56:54ZF j, Y

I have an old T43 laptop by IBM. Recently I put Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on it and started getting a hissing noise when running on battery power. I found 2 possible solutions: add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/options options processor max_cstate=2 get the linux-server kernel sudo apt-get install linux-server I didn’t get a chance to try [...]

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